Universal groups for right-angled buildings

DOI10.4171/GGD/443MaRDI QIDQ1747814zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tom De Medts, Ana C. Silva, Koen Struyve

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04754

zbMATH Keywords

simple groupsuniversal groupstotally disconnected locally compact groupsright-angled buildings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: In 2000, M. Burger and S. Mozes introduced universal groups acting on trees with a prescribed local action. We generalize this concept to groups acting on right-angled buildings. When the right-angled building is thick and irreducible of rank at least 2 and each of the local permutation groups is transitive and generated by its point stabilizers, we show that the corresponding universal group is a simple group. When the building is locally finite, these universal groups are compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact groups, and we describe the structure of the maximal compact open subgroups of the universal groups as a limit of generalized wreath products.

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